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| Suzanne with translator Mrs Salaseini Sauqaqa at the school in Fiji during our Skype meeting |
Sharynne McLeod is Distinguished Professor of Speech and Language Acquisition at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This blog records the work of her team to support multilingual children's speech acquisition throughout the world. The associated Multilingual Children's Speech website contains resources for over 100 languages: http://www.csu.edu.au/research/multilingual-speech
February 27, 2015
Year 1 Fijian children's speech, language and literacy
Suzanne Hopf (my PhD student) is in the final phase of collecting data with year 1 students in Fijian school. She has interviewed and worked with 36 year 1 children, parents, and their teacher. Last year she worked with 40 year 4 children in the same school. We are excited that we will soon be able to commence data analysis to document the skills of these multilingual children.